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- 4851: Shakespeare In Love: A Great Movie
- ... great form of entertainment requires professional perspectives. I found a movie that was seen by many as one of the greatest movies of the year. Shakespeare In Love was not only entertaining for the present day viewers, but it also contained insight into the social aspects of a time gone by. The director was able to create a movie that captured humorous qualities as well as serious tones. Shakespeare In Love ... Shakespeare In Love due to the various tales that exist within the movie itself. Shakespeare In Love is a romantic comedy that appeals to all generations. The story is set in Elizabethan England with present day concerns like doing what makes us happy despite what others think is morally acceptable. The use of the Globe Theatre expresses the difference in times, but the importance of entertainment. The film demonstrates the way ...
- 4852: Death of a Salesman: Willy's Life
- ... sons Biff and Happy are men of good character. Biff is living his life the best way he knows. He is not a rich man by all means, but has the happiness of not living day by day in some crammed office. Biff is an outdoors man and enjoys the fresh air and hard work, but he can never enjoy the career he has chosen because his father has made him believe that ...
- 4853: Cole's View From Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts and Whitman's Leaves of Grass: Ways The Artist Portrays Themselves To The Viewer
- ... readers. Whitman does not want to distinguish himself as an author. Whitman most of all tries to relate to the common man through his writings. In Starting from Paumanok Whitman writes, Well-begotten, and raisd by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier campd or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California, Or rude in my home in Dokotas woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring, Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in ...
- 4854: Sheyann Webb
- ... in the spring of 1866. Afterward, Susan had trouble supporting the six childen. After the three older children married and left, Mrs.Moses was forced to send the three younger children to neighbors' houses. One day while dusting the funiture, Annie decided to take down her father's gun and clean it. A few days later, she saw a squirrel running in the field. Excitedly, she took down the gun and ... owner set up a shooting match with the well known sharpshooter, Frank Butler. Annie shot all 25 birds while Frank shot only 24. Later, Frank would say that he lost two things to Annie that day: the match and his heart. Annie and Frank went on the road as a team. Annie wanted a fancy name, so she settled on Oakley, a suburb outside of Cincinnati.Annie loved showbiz. She liked ...
- 4855: Static Electricity
- ... of creating static electricity. Most of the time it is caused by accident, and is sometimes considered a nuisance. A simple way to make static electricity is by combing your hair briskly on a dry day. As you run the comb through your hair, your hair loses electrons and becomes positively charged. The comb gains electrons and becomes negatively charged. The static electricity created causes your hair to make a crackling noise as you comb it. Another way to place a charge on yourself is by walking across a rug on a dry day. The friction between your shoes and the rug transfers electrons from your body to the rug, giving your body a positive charge. Touching a doorknob or another metal object may cause electrons to jump from ...
- 4856: Jailhouse Rock: The Story of Elvis Aaron Presley
- ... his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, Elvis graduated from high school and began working as a truck driver while he studied evenings to become an electrician. One day, while driving a truck for his company, Elvis noticed a sign that read, "Memphis Recording Service-Make Your Own Records. Four Dollars for Two Songs." This sign would change his life forever. II. Career Elvis ... He soon followed with the hugely successful double-sided single record "Hound Dog"/ "Don't Be Cruel" (1956) and "All Shook Up" (1957). Elvis's musical influences were the pop and country music of the day, the gospel music he had heard in church, and the black R&B he had absorbed on Beale Street as a Memphis teenager. By 1956, Elvis was an international sensation. He had a sound and ...
- 4857: Sir Isaac Newton
- Sir Isaac Newton Jan 4 1643 - March 31 1727 On Christmas day by the georgian calender in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, England, Issaac Newton was born prematurely. His father had died 3 months before. Newton had a difficult childhood. His mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton remarried when ... states that acceleration and direction depend in the applied force. Isaac's third law of motion is for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. These laws of motion are what made modern day space travel possible. Newton is also famous for proving that sunlight is really made of all the colors of the rainbow. He used a prism to seperate white light into all the individual colors. Newton ...
- 4858: Our Solar System at a Glance
- ... Days and nights are long on Mercury. The combination of a slow rotation relative to the stars (59 Earth days) and a rapid revolution around the Sun (88 Earth days) means that one Mercury solar day takes 176 Earth days or two Mercury years -- the time it takes the innermost planet to complete two orbits around the Sun! Mercury appears to have a crust of light silicate rock like that of ... ve learned that the magnetic field does not fade off into space but has definite boundaries. And we now know that our wispy upper atmosphere, once believed calm and uneventful, seethes with activity -- swelling by day and contracting by night. Affected by changes in solar activity, the upper atmosphere contributes to weather and climate on Earth. Besides affecting Earth's weather, solar activity gives rise to a dramatic visual phenomenon in ...
- 4859: Jazz By Toni Morrison, Written
- ... search for understanding our character's minds. Violet had three miscarriages, implying that the couple was indeed trying to have a child. Granted that birth control was not the same is it is in our day, if Violet and Joe had no intentions whatsoever of having children, one would think that after one pregnancy (it doesn't matter how it turned out) the pair would be more careful with further sexual ... helps to explain her actions surrounding Dorcas. It makes some sense now as to why Violet would place a picture of a girl she should hate on her mantle, and look at it ever single day. She hopes that Dorcas can become or take the place of the child that she was never able to have with Joe.
- 4860: Death of A Salesman: Failure vs. Success
- ... about their jobs. Happy has an idea of starting a line of sporting goods so Biff decides to go to Bill Oliver to ask to borrow money. Willy decides to go to Howard the next day to ask if he can work in New York so that he wouldnt have to drive 700 miles to work.. The next day Willy goes to Howard and Biff goes to see Oliver. They decide to celebrate their success by going out for dinner at night. When Willy talks with Howard, he loses his temper and begins yelling ...
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